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Title: Micromégas Title Record # 1441124
Author: Voltaire
Date: 1752-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN, Wikipedia-FR
Language: French
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Year Title
1752 Micromégas: Histoire philosophique
1829 Micromégas, Histoire philosophique
Year Language Title
unknownTranslated by uncredited
English Micromégas [as by François Marie Arouet de Voltaire]
1753Translated by unknown hands This translation begins: In one of the planets that revolve round the star known by the name of Sirius, was a certain young gentleman of promising parts, whom I had the honour to be acquainted with, in his last voyage to this our little ant-hill.
English Micromegas [as by M. de Voltaire]
1885Translated by unknown hands Same as the 1753 translation with the author credit as M. de Voltaire.
English Micromegas
1910Translated by an unknown translator
Romanian Micromegas
1923Translated by H. I. Woolf
English Micromegas: Philosophic Story
1928Translated by R. Bruce Boswell
English Micromegas
1931Translated by unknown hands
English Micromegas
1948Translated by Ilse Lehmann
German Mikromegas: Eine naturphilosophische Erzählung
1959Translated by Sergiu Dan and Al. Philippide
Romanian Micromegas
1961Translated by Donald M. Frame
English Micromegas
1971 Portuguese Micromegas
1973Translated by Unknown
English Micromégas
1974Translated by an anonymous hand This is the 1753 anonymous translation.
English Micromegas: A Comic Romance Being a Severe Satire Upon the Philosophy, Ignorance, and Self-Conceit of Mankind
1989Translated by W. Fleming
English Micromégas
2002Translated by Theo Cuffe
English Micromégas
2009Translated by Al Haines. This translation was for Project Gutenberg.
English Micromegas, Philosophical History
2013Translated by Unknown
English Micromegas
2018 English Micromégas
2020 English Micromegas
2022Translated by unknown hands This translation begins: "On one of the planets that orbits the star named Sirius there lived a spirited young man, who I had the honour of meeting on the last voyage he made to our little anthill. He was called Micromégas, a fitting name for anyone so great. He was eight leagues tall - 24,000 yards."
English Micromégas

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Micromégas 2010-02-00 Voltaire Nathan (Carrés classiques #17) 978-2-09-187235-3   95
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
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